Fig. 6

Geographical distribution of Rhipicephalus sanguineus cox1 haplotypes in and near the Mediterranean Basin. Coloured circles without accession number indicate samples from this study (yellow, Rhipicephalus sp. I; red, Rhipicephalus sp. IIa; purple, Rhipicephalus sp. IIb). Among these, multiple sequences for the same location are not shown. Haplotypes from other studies (which had 99–100% similarity with those in this study) are marked with GenBank accession numbers, connected with dash line arrows to the relevant location. Overlapping circles indicate the same location (where different haplotypes were found); the zigzag arrow marks the direction of location (outside this map) for the sample from Iran (Tehran). The location within a country is accurately indicated for samples of this study, as well as for Egypt, Italy and Romania from other studies, but for the rest of the samples only the country was known